GAZA, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah movement's armed wing in Gaza, claimed responsibility on Thursday for launching two homemade rockets from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel.

    The group said in a leaflet that its militants fired two "al-Aqsa" medium-range rockets from Gaza at the southern Israeli town of Sderot in response to the Israeli violation of the truce.

    Early on Thursday, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian young man, a Fatah member who was approaching the fence of the borders between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

    Israel said that about 17 homemade rockets and mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel since an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas movement came into effect on June 19.

    In response, Israel closed down Gaza Strip crossing points for five times and didn't allow basic food products, fuels and raw-materials into the impoverished region. Israel later gradually reopened the crossings following Egyptian pressure.

    The death of the Palestinian young man is the first killing by Israeli soldiers since the truce took effect. Three Palestinian farmers were shot and wounded during the first three weeks of the truce in the coastal enclave.

    According to the truce brokered by Egypt, Israel should stop attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and ease the blockade for ending homemade rocket attacks at Israel.